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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Yun's mother die?

2. When Deling was also arrested, what happened to their children?

3. During Yun's time at home, how did he feel like God wanted him to order his priorities?

4. When Yun got home after being released from prison, what was he immediately asked to do by the Christians who had been waiting for him?

5. In 1993, Yun was released after spending how much time in prison?

Short Essay Questions

1. What devastating news did Yun hear in Chapter Twenty-Five?

2. How did the Christians begin to help people who violated the "one child law" as Yun and Deling had?

3. What was Yun's relationship to the woman who ran the tiny store in the prison?

4. Explain the miraculous circumstances of Yun's escape from prison in Chapter Twenty-Two.

5. While Yun was in prison, his wife and mother worked their family fields. What did they do, and what was the result?

6. In Chapter Fourteen, Yun went to trial. How was his devotional book, "Streams in the Desert" used to help him stay faithful to his fellow Christians on the outside?

7. How did Yun eventually end up hospitalized in a German refugee detention center?

8. Describe Yun's reaction to the "Back To Jerusalem" vision that was passed on to Yun by another missionary.

9. In Chapter Twenty-Five, what did Yun describe as the difference between the Western church and the Chinese church when it came to financial giving for missions?

10. What did Yun say was the difference between the Western church and the Chinese church as far as sermon content?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Yun met varying degrees of commitment from Christians as he traveled to different parts of China. Some were willing to risk all, even their lives to help Yun, others were fearful and would not help at all. Why do you think this was so? What could make the responses vary so widely? Did Yun judge those Christians, or harbor bitterness towards them?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter Two, Yun wrote that God intervened in his life by healing his father. This is the first of many miraculous healings we read about in this book.

Part 1) Recount from the book at least three different times that Yun attributed a miraculous healing to God. Name the person healed and the circumstances.

Part 2) Did Yun view the healing as a means to an end? What would that end be?

Part 3) Did Yun downplay healings or exalt them? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the Chinese Government's Three-Self Church. What were the "Three-Selfs"? Do you think the government has an ulterior motive in setting up this "church"? How did Brother Yun feel about it and what was his reaction to it? Did other Christians see it that way? Did other Christians join? Provide examples from the book to support your position.

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